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?HE ANOE?iS?N INTELLIGENCER rOIJNIlEO AUGUST 1. !(*?.. Ut West WfcttMr Street. ANDElt*0>, 8. t. W. W. SMOAK, Editor and Bus. Mgr K. ADAMS.Managing Editor. I* M. GLENN.City Editor PHELPS SASSEEN, Advertising Mgr T. B. GODFREY.Circulation Mgr. Entered as second-class matter Ap ril 28, 1914, at tho post office at An derson, South Carolina, under the Act Of March 3, 187?. Kember of Associated Presa and Receiving Complete Dully Telegraphic Service. TELEPHONES Editorial and Business Office.821 Job Printing .693-L SUBSCRIPTION OATES SeniMYecklr One Tear .$1.60 Six Months .75 Dany One Year .16.00 8tx Months . 2,60 Throe Months. 1-tS The Intelligencer ls delivered by carriers In the city. If you fall to get your paper regularly please notify os. Opposite your naran on the label of your paper is printed date to which our paper is paid. All checks and drafts should be drawn to The Anderson Intelligencer. The allied fleet 1? making Utah of the forts of Turkey. "There's more In BU! Taft than any body lias suspected." After eating, we suppoav? An Atlanta burglar stoic, ' among other thing things, a canary. He's a bird of a tiiief. It might be a good idea to keep that split log drag out near the road whore It,will be handy. -Q-. Husband, Afraid of Wife, Auks Divorce.-If he really means it, and doesn't obtain ono,' Lnwsy help him. The family Jewel? will have to make way in the Btrong-hox for tho groc eries if prices of foodstuffs rise much nrjro. -o A good many family trees are shady.-Columbia State. And tho hoads of a good many families are brock heads. * 'Whether a criminal always returns to {SB Bcene of tua cr?.BP brandi of ten upon the ability of the police to apprehend him. --o Women's skirts are to be much shorter this year. Hut it will take Just as much of tim lot lg green to buy them as before. The J-ard.of Stratford oh Avon said .there are sermons in stones. Yes, sometimes a brickbat is a fine thing with which to drive home a ruth. A Kentuckian has been made direc tor of the mint. What tbe average Kentuckian doesn't know about the mint is overbalanced by his knowl edge of Julep. "Lots of iden are interested in noth ing but tho money they make," says -Thomas A. Edison. Wo newspaper inen, Tom, arc more interested In tho money wo don't make. -o Anderson now has a handsome new I theatre. We bet "East Lynne" would play to u packed house there.-York News. We haven't heard of Yorkvlllc | raving over its grand opera. Price of Ice is Going Up As Spring] Arrives.-Headline. What chilling j news, and oh, such a comforting (?) thought,. since we have got to buy | moro coal before thia winter is over. A Nebraska farmer wants a pretty girl arrested as a witch because his Bon can't ke< ,< away from her. What he ohould resort to is a marriage license and a preacher, not the sheriff and a warrant. -o . - That fellow in New York who was arrested for throwing a bomb into the midst of p. church congregation ought to know that throwing bombs Into the congregation is a right enjoyed by the pastors and no others. -o A Chicago girl specifies that her future husband "mast not chew, amoks, drink, gamble, swear, play cards, dance, or objects to washing the supper dishes; must stay at home ?very night, live within hui income, and be.a devout Christian." Well, that ?kind of a girl certainly deserves that kind of a man.-Columbia State. She etther has a cute way of saying abe ta, never going to get married, or sh? ls a mighty , fair way to die a spinster. MEX MAY CRY ?P??C? Pf?ACE?w BUT We think that a mediatiyt board] should be appointed to try and bring about. peace between the Anderson Intelligencer and the Greenwood] Journal,-York Nows. ' H . ". - ' ' - KO MK I'S PA KOONA BLK MINIS FORMATION? li is expected perhaps that (here shall bc ail kinds of rumora a? io the proposed bond Issue and Hs provis ions. For lids reason we have pub lished the law as lt was ftnatly passed and approved by the governor. Tho man who doca not read any news paper and has to take his information from common talk is likely to pet a Very hazy idea of the proposition, and lt would bo well for Hie road eora inis.-ion to have a number of pamphlets printed giving the exact wording of Hir law and some more data on the taxes, and th" methods to be employ ed to raise Hie money with which to pay the Interest ami provide the sink ing fund called for in tim act. For instance, we have been told that tile opinion acema to prevail that every man will have lo pay an addi tional road tax of $:? whether he owns any property or not. This is not true, for the man who pa>T$ .the tax is the man who owns the property. If Mr. A. returns for taxation, as many of our citizens do. only a few dollars for household goods-sny $20-then his tax would be increased one cent for every three and one-third dollnrs on which lie pays taxes. If Mr. A. pays on $20 lils taxoB will be six cents more each yenr. If he pays on $100 his tax would by thirty cents more each year. If ho pays on $.".00 his tax would bc $5.50 each year. If he pays on $1,000 his tax would bc $3 more each year. So it is tho man1 with thc property who will pay the taxes. We have shown that the people 'of thc cities and towns, the corporations, railroads, etc., pay 70 per cent of all tho taxes of the county and that the people of the .rural districts will pay only ?10 per cent of all the taxes. So the argument that ls hoing used that tho farmers will bear the burden of the taxes for the bond Issue is no! true. Hc will benr approximately 30 per cent of the burden, and the other Interests <of tho county will boar the rest. In other word:; the taxes might he represented by a loe ten feet long, the farmer will carry 3 feet of it and tho other interests of tho county will carry 7 feet What ve fall to under stand is that there should bc any op position at all tn the rural districts on uny Hiich proposition. Union County is going to have an election on a bond Issue of $200,000 lust a week after the election in An derson County, and Editor Rice of the Union Times says: Now, human nature is very human. Don't you find lt so, brother? And are we not all very much alike? I believe so. Let UB get chown to brass tacks. Let's take things as they are. Will thin bond issue hurt the poor man? I am going to put myself rn the shoes of thc poor man. (Strange to say the shoes flt very ...ell, too.) Let's say I am a very very poor man, right down at he bottom. (Truth ls, I am mlghtv nigh right there.) Well, Rice, very poor man. what objoction to the bond is sue? Why, none; I am selfish enough to be willing to let the prop erty owners build the roads. I am glad to have them build them. I want good roads even for walking purposes, to say nothing of the oc casional usc I may have for them for riding purposes. I will have lit tle of the taxes to pay. T will have aa much right to use the road as will the ten thousand dollar automobile man have to use lt. In fact more right, for if the automobile gives me any "sass," I will go to the courts and I will stand a better chance to win, for I am in the majority. Moro than that. I'll get some of the $200,000 of thc money that will be turned loose for labor; for, hoing-a very poor man, I must bo a laboring man. Yeo, Rice, thc very poor man will, if ho usos shrewd judgment, vote for bonds for good roads. He would act with poor judgment if he did not for selfish reasons. Again, let's put -on the shoes of the great middle class, not very poor; ; ot very rich-Just in reasonably good circumstances. (Whether the shoes flt or not. let's suppose they do.) Well, Rice, the moderately cir cumstanced man, owns a small fafrn; or, a small merchandise establish ment or * ''one-horse" newspaper (In debt or out) ; or, a small dalry; or, small truck farm; or, a beef .nari;et; or, a chicken farm-never mind which -whatever it ts Rice owns, aaaeaied at about $1,000, and worth "H^tp or three titres that. Now, from a selfish standpoint: Does Rice, the moderate ly circumstanced man have any kick against the bond issue? Not on your Ufo! He would bc kicking against fortune. In the first place lt wTU not coat me over $2 per year. I've got no "kick coming." for it will put more, than that ld my pocket everr year. Hov/? Why. when I hauled the pro ducts from my farm to market, when I get more people to come to my store, when I get^more $1 subscriptions, when I find better roads to drive my dalry wagon over, when I bring my vegetables to town tn a buggy with one mule (inaiead of using a wagon and. two mules), when I go out after cattle to furnish beef in my market, when I fetch eggs to town, why no matter who I am. or what my activi ties, being a moderately well-\>ff In dividual. I wUl get more than lt will cost me. You? can Juat put lt In your pipe and smoke it, I nm for *ood ! roads. Yea, slr! I am for.good roads. {' : Well, I will now ? ut ou another pair of shoes: I, Rice, am a rich man. (alas! the ahoe does not fit. but I'll !wear it for argument's sake, any way). Rice tue rich man. what have you to say? Do you find any selfish reason fer roting for bond* for good roads? LeT?j see. I will not live very long. If I leave a fortune, leave it 1 munt, or I ntUKt ?pend ?orno, if I am to get any personal pleasure out of it. .Ves. I am willing to be taxed to get the roads. I get moro real pleas ure out of a good auto ?pin than any thing I think of. (KX'-UHO mo, the auto ls sort of new to mo-I am rich only in imagination > I like to hoar the hum of the eugine. I Uko the sen sation of Hie drive up hill und down hill ifs tin", li did not know how good i'. was until I got on the rich shoes). Fine lt IB-yes. I. Hice the rirh man, will vote for bonds. I am selfish rnotjglt to want sonic benefit from I ht- money ? have accumulated. I am also selfish enough to feel that if I leave my children all rr.y wealth t!i< v should help pay for these good ronds. Yes. 1 feel that to be about right. I nm middle-aged; soon will not need good roada. If I wore going to live always. I'd bo willlny. for selfish reas-ons, to pay the * whoK; thing. Fd bato to think > had always to live and yet had no way to got de liverance from the mud. Yes, I will for selfish reasons. vo?. for bonds. Moreover, I oleen have im in .. trips to neighboring towns and cities. I find il will pay me and be a great con venience to me, as well, to have good rouds for quick automobile trips. THIS PRACTICE SIKH LD STOP. Wo do not know the new Federal Judge, Hon. Joseph T. Johnson, and he doubtless is a man well fitted for tho position to which he has been selected. Hut wc do not approve of the prnctlec of creating positions and filling thom from tho creating power. There has been entirely too umcli of this kind of thing In South Carolina politics, and there Bhould be a stop put to.It. It ls not right for positions to be created and then filled by thoBe creating thc position from their own number. Had there been no attorney In the district capable of filling thc position but Mr. Johnst -, then we would have nothing to say. Hut he has boon honored ns few men have been nnr' had been elevated to thc high position ot congressman, not for thc purpose of having himself elected lo a Judgeship, for which he has been working several terms of congress, we understand, but he was elected to rep resent his district In congress. He rthould have stuck to his Job till re tired by the people who put him there, or till his term was out and he vol untarily retired. It would bo well for there to he some Iron clad laws pre venting Just, this thing whether or not H hi' attempted In tho State or In thc nation. CITY BOM? ISSUE CERTAIN. That the bona Issue will carry In the city on tho 16th Inst., is a foregone conclusion, and if those who know anything about the views of those reg istering, it is all over but the shouting. We feel sure that those Interested enough to register, will maintain that Interest till they have deposited their ballot in the election box on thc day of the election. Many an election b?? been lost because of indifference, and we trust that there shall be none of this in Anderson. It ls a good rule, ulso not to count your chickens be fore they are hatched, and the votes for thc I .ml Issue will not count till they are voted and counted. The In telligencer urges every holder of a certificate not to forget the day and not to put off voting. . _ Pl LL ?OWN OR BUILD UPI The editor of tho Spartanburg Her ald hun been ruminating on the ef forts of some people to tear down rather than to build up,, and he has thc following very well' thought out arguments to present as to why one should not attempt to pull down the efforts ot those who are trying to build up: lt has been said several times re cently iu our presence that there ls developing as a characteristic of the people cf Spart? Pburg a disposition to pull down rather than to build up. Thia li af plied not to our material progress, but to the community atti tude toward Individuals. Lack ot loy alty is what they term lt. and they add that it la growing into a commun ity trait. Instances are mentioned tn which the people of the city hi Ire failed to appreciate ability of especial aptness shown by persona for a* given work, done lu their midst. Instead of rewarding mer??, it ls said we re ject it. Had fault with the Individual showing it, and In due time the said individual moves on. It la written tlttf, Unto him that hath shall be given. But In Spar enburg there ta a dkVtoaitlon to pull down and take away from him even that hath that which he gives promise of having. If we are going to hare a grc?t city and exert an Influence In the upbuilding of South Carolina, we must have Individ?ala who have suc ceeded and who are tn position to render their community service of the highest sort. ' The man who haa lt in him to suc ceed does not respond in an atmos phere of that sort. He either succeeds in spite of oppoeltovn and becofaaea, year by year, njore and more out of sympathy with his surrounding, or hr moves on to more hopeful, en couraging and Inspiring company. The best way to kill any community ls to establish a habit of pulling down every man who begins to do things or shows any disposition to do things worth while. THE WEATHER. Fair Saturday, cosier near Iks coast; Sunday fair. Good Roads Proposed Bond Issue $751 / March 3 Road Commissionei B. M. Aull.Autun. J. M. Uroyles.Townvjlle H. P. Cely.Piedmont Paul lt. Earle.Anderson, lt. F. D.I W. Frank McGee. GEORGIA EXPENDED ~ $4.127,899 IN ROADS New York State Has Appropriat ed $1,000,000,000 for Im proved Highways In 1911 Georgia road building by counties and convict labor furnished by the State, In dollars amounted to $4.127,899. The average cost per mile of public roads was $49.15, or $1.58 per inhabitant. Georgia has no highway commis sion or State engineer, nor does ihe State directly engage in road con struction except to furnish the State convicts. In 1911. 4,744 convicts were employed in road construction work. The State, however, has what ls known as an advisory hoard of tho Geological Surv ey, composed of_ the elective officers of the State and a Geologist Department in charge of a State Geologist. This department col lects statistical information relative to the public roads and highways of the State. The 1912 report, the Inst available, shows (hat out of a public road mile age In Georgia of 83.896, there have within the last few j|:ars been built ",eveu miles of shell, thirty-five miloB Df macadam, 235 miles cf roads sur faced with gravel and chert and 4, 077 miles surfaced with sand-clay mixtures. \ Nevada has no highway department and contributes nothing toward the building of roads. In 1911 th0 legis lature appropriated $20,000 for road work to be done by convict labor and a road was built between Carson City, thc capital, and Reno. 'Ii 1913 the legislature appropriated $60.000 to be used in the construction of 1.100 miles of "good roads," but Governor Oddie vetoed lt - because the appropriation was so utterly insufficient to construct thc mileage of roads the legislature had In contemplation, although road building in Nevada is made relatively cheap by the reason of the natural climatic and soil conditions. ? Annual Automobile Tax. West Virginia has constructed no roads from State funds only. In 1909 tho legislature created a State road departmon* and made a levy of 1 cent per $100 valuation. Political condi tions changed and Mu- following ses sion of Ihe legislature abolished the law and prorated the money raised Dy the tax to the various counties, creat ing a State road bureau and chief road a State road bureau and chief road engineer under the control ol thc State University, which hureRu has advisory authority over all public roads within the State. An annual automobile tax of $10 ls collected. Permanent road building materials used in West Virginia is brick, con crete, tarvia, bituminous, penetration macadam, bltullthic and water-bound mac dam. Tho latter ls most univer sally used there on account of its rcn^.ng from only $60 to $3,000 per mlle. New York State originally begun its direct road work by the creation of a highway commission of three, and providing for a bond issue of $50, 000,000 to bo used in road construction. In 1913 the legislature abolished the threo-headed commission and substi tuted in its place a single commission er, and provided plans for the direct appropriation of another $50,000,000 to be used in further construction of highways, making a total thus far provided of a round $1,000,000.000, ail ot which has not yet been spent. he newer New York has divided tho State into nine divisions and places a division engineer in active supervision of the work and main tenance in each division. New York's Plan of Operation. Highways are classified as "State Highways," being those constructed solely at State expense; ''county, high ways," constructed Jointly hy State, county and town; "town highways," constructed by the towns with tho aid of the State. The highway commis sioner receives a salary of $10,000 per year. The first deputy receives $6,000, tho second and third deputies $5,000 each. Other employes receive correspondingly proportionate com pensation. The nine division engi neers each receive $4.000 per- annum. The law requires the appointment of a county road superintendent, and also a town au per in tendent ol', high ways. The duties ot these officers are to supervise and maintain the roads, highways and streets, bridges and culverts within their respective Jurisdictions. 'The 8tate ls building a system of cardinal trank line and market roads at its own expense. It contributes to the building of roads by the counties and towns based upon assessable values per mlle bf road. The law also provides for the use ot convicts and prison labor. The first deputy commissioner ls in chdrge of construction work, the second of maintenance and repairs, the third of town highways. ? State and county highways com pleted under contract and ready for contract total 6,109 miles. Plans are made for completing 6.000 additional miles. State Aid Plan In Colorado. Colorado bas laid out a general aya. Department O.O?O Election to b~ H*?lrl O', 1915. rs Provided tn Act: J. S. Fowler.Anderson C. E. Harper.Honea Path J. Mack King, Supervisor.Helton Ross Mitchell .Helton . Iva teni of primary State roads of 5,000 rmiles and about 30,000 miles of coun ty roads. She has neither made direct appropriation nor issued bonds for ?I d xrork. but at the time of her ad missioo to the Union by congressional grant, C00.000 acres of land became public property, the proceeds of which were to be used In internal improve ments, and the income from thc sale and rental of these lands is being ex pended by the State highways com-1 missioner for permanent road im provement. Hy a State aid plan she contributed to each county an amount equal to that expended by the county on what are classed "secondary roads," primary roads being a part of the 5.000 mileB State highway system and first to be Improved. The highway department is in charge of a State highway commis sioner and an advisory board, or com mission, of five members, one- from each of five districts of the State. The quite usual specifications, rules and regulations as to authority over pub lic roads is in effect. There is an automobile and motorcycle license fee based upon horsepower, running from ? a minimum of '$2.60 up. The commis sioner receives an annual compensa tion of $3,000 and serves for four years. The secretary of the advisory board must be a civil engineer and receives $2,000. The advisory board receive no compensation, except trav eling and other expense while attend ing to duties of office. Better results might oe expected, however, should i the board be paid per diem and ex pense. The State expended about $000,000 in 1913 for road improve ment. In the "Old Dominion." Tho Old Dominion State, by legisla tive appropriation from the general funds, sets aside approximately half a million dollars annually for the construction of public highways. The roads are built on a county aid plan, whereby the county IP required to expend an amount equal to that con tributed by the State. Convicts are worked on the roads and $145.000 per annum ls appropriated for the main tenance of the State convict board force. Sixty thousand dollars per year is required to maintain the Vir girla State highway department, at the head of which is a State high way commissioner, appointed by the governor for ?\ six-year term. The remaining taret members of the com mission are deans of the engineering departments of the University of Vir ginia, Virginia Military Institute and Virginia A. & M. College. Their highway department was or ganized in 1906. Since that time the State has pald'one-half the expense of construction of 2,916 miles of hard surface road and 170 bridges. Of this 855 miles of road and 90 bridges have been built during 1914. The State receives from a license tax on automobiles, about $115,000 per an num, which now goes into construc tion work, but which is to be shortly set aside for maintenance work. INTERESTING SERVICE YESTERDAY AFTEROON An excellent program was enjoyed by those who attended the service held at the Baptist church yester day afternoon, in connection with the week of prayer being observed by the ladies of the missionary society. Mrs. C. S. Minor led this meeting on "Cuba and the Canal Zone." Cuba long dominated by Spain has been under Catholic influence and the people aro in the grip of ignorance, superstition, and vice. Southern Baptists have been fortunate In se curing a good stronghold there and the work ls advancing under the wise leadership of Superintendent McCall. The Canal Zone is now a strategic point and the needs of this field were laid upon the hearts of the women. A great treat is in store for those .who attend the closing meeting thia afternoon. Three vital problems of home mission work will be presented; the negroes, the Immigration and tho Indians. The girls of the church Y. W. A. and the College Y. W. A. will lead and the girls of thc Christian growth club will close with a real Indian demonstration. This is the in gathering meeting when the offering for homo mission work will be tak en. Every woman ls urged to come and by her presence, prayer, and of fering make thia afternoon a fitting close of a week in which God has richly blessed os. Stories will be told to the children,by Mrs. J. O. Sanders. ' WOKEN ORRVILLE M. E. CHURCH Requested ts Meet at Church Nest Sunday Afternoon. The members of W. M. S. of tho Orrville M. E. church request the presence of every lady member of tbs Orrville M. BL church, br Methodist included, at the church at 3:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon March 7. Hoplag each and every one of you will accept this aa a speciaj InvIU tloa as we have business ot Impor tance to (iiscuss. W. M. 8. Orrville M. E. C. Prsper Treatment For Biliousness. For a long time Miss Lula Skelton. Churchvilte. N. Y.. was bilious and had sick headache and dtssy spells. Chamberlain's Tablets were the only thing that gave her permanent relief. Abtatnable everywhere. .WHEN you spend y about fifty per cent, r than you pay for satisfied. That's v/ha sale now, but this sale seven more days. Men's All $10.00 Suits now reduced to All $12.50 Suits.now reduced to All $15.00 Su;ts now reduced to All $18.00 Suits now reduced to All $20.00 Suits now reduced to All $22.50 Suits now reduced to All $25.00 Suits now reduced to The Si SOMETHING GUUD AT PARAMOUNT "The Unwelcome Mrs. Hatch" Secured for This Afternoon and Evening "The Unwelcome Mrs. Hatch" will be the attraction at the Paramount theatre Saturday afternoon and ev ening. ' Those persons who fro to see "The Unwelcome Mrs. Hatch," by Mrs. Burton Harrison will find a wel come i ellet from the sameness a*d the crudeness and thc obviousness that too often, alas, are found In mo tion pictures. This ls a superior pro duction, and it will be encouraging to th- firm and steadfast bellevcrB~in the futuro of thc picture piny as a .mbslituto lb.-." regular plays. Wo ta:n:ot have too many fl'n<3 of tbh character. Thc public ls always ready to accord such picture a hearty welcome. It certainly does all that could be asked, and even as much as the stage version of th? same play did, and this without depending on action to carry it through. For, in reality, there is very little action in the entire four reels, but there ls development and th i., is the important things after all. The story never drags/it moves for ward continuously, but the progress is in the interplay ot characters upon each other. Now the great difficulty In a picture of this kind is in making lt com prehensible without overloading it with s uh-tit les. This difficulty has been met and overcome by casting in the several parts players of rare in telligence ' and grasp, who never tall to make the spectator understand their feelings and the thoughts, and yet can-never express them by word of month. When the whole power of the play lies in the emotional clash of characters the highest order of his trionic ability is repaired to reveal this en the screen. But not a point ls missed, and thc credit for the achievement belongs to the players. First and foremost !s Henrietta Crosman, who makes her initial appearance in pictures. Fut PARAMO?N TOE SPECIAL CHILDS FROM IO A. M. ADMISSION FREE T _ AT 1 P. ?. T?IE Fi EST BEEL OF "The Unwelcott will g This features HENRI and HAROLD .*MaaEMaEEE>EM?WBBHaMLanMi COM HOKJDAT-Tie Sta TUESDAY-**Thf> Cfc* ? WEDNESDAY-"Tl Admission Bc and 10c. -? -j - G * nore money's worth you're sure to bc t you get here at this is on the last lap, only Suits $6-95 $8,95 $10.95 $12.95 $14.95 $16,95 $17,95 m CL 'o TH/ tore with a Conscience' MEAT BARGAIN SALES For Heaven's sake, child, STOP! LOOK! LISTEN! There Is reason in all things. Think for a minute, that terrible foot and mouth disease. Buy the home raised meats and no other at any price. Buy from LILY WHITE MARKET Phones 694 and 695 On Wh Un er St. near new opera house her long experience as an emotional actress fist her eminently to delineate the character of the wife who ls di vorced and comes back to see the daughter that has been taken away from her. She is really superb in the quiet re straint and the calm., dignity with which she plays a part that a lesser actress would have been sorely tempt ed to clothe with fierce and fiery out bursts ot indignation and tears of righteous sorrow. But Miss Cross man's understanding is voo fine to give vent to such melodramatic meth ods/ and she is justified because she succeeds in making the character per fectly .Intelligible. Following Miss Crosman's lead, the other players are always carefully re strained, never violent or stormy, even in the most tense and dramatic moments of the play. * In fact the play moves with this quiet dignity that is \ entirely at va riance with the feelings of the char acters, and yet is entirely in keeping with the air of ?-?od breeding that pervades 'the hrr-e from which the first wife is forrad by the actions ot a loveless husbanc. r THEATRE >AY .EN'S PROGRAM ~ . TO 1 I*. M. 0 AIL CHILDREN te Mrs. W o on/ ETTA GROSMAN LOCKWOOD INO ig ena the Maa.*? >f the ?olden West.*? litBetter Man." . High Grade Music.